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Old 12-22-2021, 09:32 AM   #34
phiwum
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Boston area
Default Re: Mundane Talents and Backgrounds

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Originally Posted by Steve Plambeck View Post
Masters of mundane talents are probably more likely to be NPCs the GM drops into a story as a plot device.
Absolutely. The same applies to many Master (non-mundane) skills. A Master Armourer is useful as an NPC, less so as a character. It takes rather a lot of time, money and XP to perform that job.

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We used to occasionally give an NPC to a player to keep for their own when they needed a replacement character in the middle of an adventure. It might be amusing to saddle a player with such a character, just to see if they could create a use for a mundane talent they never would have chosen on their own.
Clever.
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